Man critical after single punch

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Updated 1:11 pm, Monday, August 27, 2012

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Kevin Lamont Ruffin, 31, of Stamford was arrested Sunday afternoon and charged with punching a man on Saturday night who then fell on the ground and stuck his head causing a brain hemmorage. The man is expected to recover. Ruffin was charged with second-degree assault and held in lieu of $50,000. less

Kevin Lamont Ruffin, 31, of Stamford was arrested Sunday afternoon and charged with punching a man on Saturday night who then fell on the ground and stuck his head causing a brain hemmorage. The man is expected ... more

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STAMFORD -- A Bridgeport man was arrested Sunday afternoon and charged with second-degree assault after causing serious injury to an East Side man with a single punch, according to Stamford Police Sgt. Paul Guzda said.

The 25-year-old victim suffered bleeding in his brain, a broken jaw, and other complications and is in critical condition at Stamford Hospital, where he is being monitored for a brain injury, Guzda said Sunday afternoon.

Kevin Ruffin, 31, of 54 Locust St., Bridgeport, turned himself in Sunday afternoon and was charged with second-degree assault after learning police were trying to find him.

He is being held on $50,000 bond and is to be arraigned in state Superior Court in Stamford Monday, Guzda said.

The assault occurred shortly after midnight Sunday when the victim gave Ruffin and three others a lift from a basketball game in Scalzi Park.

An argument broke out and after exiting the car near West Broad and Wright streets, Ruffin punched the victim in the face, Guzda said.

The victim fell, striking his head forcefully on the pavement, Guzda said.

Friends of the victim brought him to his sister's house nearby, before he was brought to Stamford Hospital at 1 a.m.

Guzda said the assault appears to have stemmed from drunkenness and is not related to recent tensions between East Side and West Side youths that left two men dead and three injured.